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In: Sage professional papers in administrative and policy studies Vol. 1, Nr. 03-009
QRE, NSNX and the Paradox of Voting
In: Journal of theoretical politics, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 443-460
ISSN: 1460-3667
Levine and Palfrey's QRE account of turnout in large elections raises the broader question of how much of a departure from standard rational choice theory is justified by the considerable repertoire of rational choice anomalies that has accumulated since Downs and Olson half a century ago. An alternative but more controversial unconventional view turns on what I call NSNX motivation to account for how agents seek a balance between self-interest and social motivation. NSNX agents have irreducibly dual utility functions. QRE agents have a standard utility function but they do not maximize it. I review the situation showing why in situations where NSNX effects could be expected, QRE might mirror those effects. I show how, by varying parameters of an experiment, I can cleanly distinguish between actual QRE effects, which should bring predictions closer to the data than Nash, and NSNX effects, which should do the same.
QRE, NSNX and the Paradox of Voting
In: Journal of Theoretical Politics, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 443-460
Levine and Palfrey's QRE account of turnout in large elections raises the broader question of how much of a departure from standard rational choice theory is justified by the considerable repertoire of rational choice anomalies that has accumulated since Downs and Olson half a century ago. An alternative but more controversial unconventional view turns on what I call NSNX motivation to account for how agents seek a balance between self-interest and social motivation. NSNX agents have irreducibly dual utility functions. QRE agents have a standard utility function but they do not maximize it. I review the situation showing why in situations where NSNX effects could be expected, QRE might mirror those effects. I show how, by varying parameters of an experiment, I can cleanly distinguish between actual QRE effects, which should bring predictions closer to the data than Nash, and NSNX effects, which should do the same. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright 2008.]
QRE, NSNX and the Paradox of Voting
In: Journal of theoretical politics, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 443-460
ISSN: 0951-6298
Politics from Anarchy to Democracy: Rational Choice in Political Science
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 3, Heft 2
ISSN: 1541-0986
Politics from Anarchy to Democracy: Rational Choice in Political Science
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 382-383
ISSN: 1537-5927
Book Reviews: AMERICAN POLITICS: Irwin L. Morris, Joe A. Oppenheimer, and Karol Edward Soltan, eds. Politics from Anarchy to Democracy: Rational Choice in Political Science
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 382
ISSN: 1537-5927
Being therewithThomas Kuhn
In: Social epistemology: a journal of knowledge, culture and policy, Band 17, Heft 2-3, S. 221-223
ISSN: 1464-5297
Rational Lives: Norms and Values in Politics and Society. By Dennis Chong. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 292p. $45.00 cloth, $18.00 paper
In: American political science review, Band 96, Heft 4, S. 821-822
ISSN: 1537-5943
Dennis Chong proposes an account of how to forge a merger between rational choice and sociological explanations of the role of norms, values, and symbols in politics. The core idea is that norms and values (not just self-interest) are indeed essential for understanding political choice (as a sociologist would expect), but that norms and values have to develop. Those in place today change over time. And rational choice enters in guiding that evolution.
Rational Lives: Norms and Values in Politics and Society
In: American political science review, Band 96, Heft 4, S. 821-822
ISSN: 0003-0554
Game Theory and Juries: A Miraculous Result
In: Journal of theoretical politics, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 425-435
ISSN: 1460-3667
Recent work on game theory and juries reaches the startling result that making convictions easier (by easing the requirement for unanimity) would make false convictions rarer. Only the guilty would be put at increased risk. The note explains why the result is contingent on a quirk in the mathematical analysis.